Improvement in lawn-mowers



C. M. CLINTON.

Lawn Mower.

No. 101,585. Patented April 5, 1870.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

CHARLES M. CLINTON, OF ITHACA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND A. H.GREGG, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN LAWN-MOWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 101,585, dated April 5,1870.

To all whom it may concern.-

I, CHARLES M. CLINTON, of Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, haveinvented an .[mproved Hand or Lawn Mower, of which the following is aspecification My object is to make a simple, efl'ective machine, lightand easily managed, and adapted especially to mow dooryards, lawns, andother like places; and the nature of my invention will be apparent as Idescribe it.

Figure 1 is a side view or elevation of my machine; and Fig. 2, a viewfrom above, looking down on it.

In Fig. 1, A is one. of two side pieces of the triangular frame, meeting'in the upper part in a handle, and having on their lower ends themetallic bar E, connecting them into one frame. To this are attached bystuds the wheels 0 C, which support the machine, and the set roller orrollers D, and the drivingwheel H, which gears into the pinion i, andthus operates, through a shaft, I, the crank to which the connecting-rodJ is attached, which rod, at its lower end, is connected to an angledlever, G, guided by a slotted plate, 9, and pivoted at g, and whoselower end is joined to the cutter-bar F by the stud f. In

Fig. 2 the same parts are seen, and their operation is more clearlyapparent.

The operator takes hold of the handle B with his left hand, and with hisright, by the crank-handle h, turns the driver H, which moves the pinionz", and, through the shaft 1, the crank-plate on the end of the saidshaft opposite z', and thus moves the angled lever G, through the rod J,and the cutter-bar F backward and forward with its knives in thefinger-guards, while held and guided by the metal frame-plate E. Theroller D is adjustable by a set-screw and slotted plate, and regulatesthe distance from the ground at which the knives cut.

Other and lesser parts are seen in the drawlngs.

The advantages and uses of my invention are apparent to those skilled inthe art to which it appertains.

The arrangement and combination of the triangular frame A A E, thehandle B, the handled driver H, shaft I and its pinion '5, andcrank-plate rod J, angled lever G, guide-roller D, wheels 0 C,cutter-bar and its knives in their finger-guards, substantially as andfor the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto snlr scribed my name.

CHARLES M. CLINTON.

Vitnesses EDGAR I-IUsoN, J. L. CUTTER.

